AN - This is the last chapter of the Precipice section! Next chapter we pick up with Eclectic Love <3 (Also there's an action scene in this chapter so please give me some constructive feedback if you have any cause those are annoying to write lol)
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Reminder:
Precipice ~ Hinata: 14 (just had her birthday), Kakashi: 23
Eclectic Love ~ Hinata: 18, Kakashi: 28
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Precipice - Chapter Eighteen
Hinata stood in the centre of the path that lead to Konoha's entrance. The solid dirt beneath her feet crumbled as she slid her foot outwards, widening her stance. Bandages wrapped from the palms of her hands up until the bend of her elbow. Her ANBU gear sat stiff in comparison to the civilian clothes she'd been donning too often in the past three months.
The spiderweb of veins surrounding her eyes pulsed as she pushed more charka to her Byakugan.
Four Root agents encircled, sharpened kunai in hand.
"I'm guessing you just want to talk?" Hinata lips twisted into a lopsided smile. She turned her head towards the captain perched in a tree to her left. Her hand slid into her kunai pouch. She slit her finger against a sharpened edge, rubbing the warm liquid against her first three fingers.
The captain nodded—though Hinata guessed not in response to her question.
Her all-seeing eyes watched as the three others pounced from their positions.
The shinobi behind her reached her first.
Hinata curled forward, her ponytail whipping with her. She twisted in her dodge, reaching around to grab hold of the attackers wrist she used her bloodied finger to draw a single symbol. Using their momentum she flung them at the man to her right, stopping him from completing any pesky jutsu.
Noticing the captain push towards her with katana in hand, she reached her left hand into her pouch to grab a kunai. She turned, stopping the third shinobi's blade with her own. Pushing charka to her hands, she felt it surround her hand and blade like a thin bubble of cooling water.
The third shinobi's arm gave in. They wavered as they noticed a crack form in their blade.
Hinata used their momentary hesitation. Pushing the blade upwards, her empty hand made contact against their chest. Those same bloodied fingers used that single moment. The shinobi flew backwards as a pressure wave of chakra hurled from her palm.
Dropping to a crouch, a kunai sliced off a thin strand of her free falling hair. She rolled to the side as the captain spewed a purple ball from their lips.
Pushing upwards, her feet left the ground. Her palm scraped as she wrapped her fingers around a low hanging branch and flung herself further into the air. She watched as the ball of acid popped as it slammed into a tree and heard as it sizzle as it ate its way through.
In the air she brought her hands together and flashed through a pathway of handsigns. Beside her, thin needles materialized from the water vapour in the air. With one more sign they flung forward towards her four staring enemies.
The captain repeated that same jutsu, flinging another ball of acid to destroy half the needles. The other half pierced the legs of two of the shinobi, cutting clean through.
They tried to stand back up but as Hinata fell she activated the seal she had drawn on the two of them. Their legs collapsed as their chakra drained into the seal.
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